Rule of Law

The Comparative Constitutions Project database (University of Illinois Cline Center for Democracy) provides observations on the formal characteristics of written constitutions for independent states.
CCP is directed by Zachary Elkins (University of Texas) and Tom Ginsburg (University of Chicago), and is hosted by the University of Illinois.
"The intent of the project is to investigate the sources and consequences of constitutional choices. Towards this end, the investigators are collecting data on the formal characteristics of written constitutions, both current and historical."

The world's constitutions to read, search and compare.

The Law and Justice Institutions Thematic Group is a collection of World Bank staff who have a professional interest in advancing the Bank’s justice reform work. Group members are drawn from a diversity of World Bank organizational units that may be involved in designing, implementing, evaluating, or providing information about law and justice reform programs.

This paper provides a cross-country comparison of measures of judicial performance and investigates how cross-country differences in trial length are related to the underlying characteristics of judicial systems.

The International Centre for Prison Studies assists governments and other relevant agencies to develop appropriate policies on prisons and the use of imprisonment.